Saturday, September 29, 2012

Episode 53 features special guest David Cantor.http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=7392026724731048755#editor/target=post;postID=1699410862535916337

A full-time animal advocate with national organizations since 1989, in late 2002 David Cantor founded and since then has served as the Executive Director of Responsible Policies for Animals (RPA), a group that engages in what he refers to as “strict rights advocacy”. RPA rejects both the traditional animal welfare strategy as well as abolitionism. Audio podcast, running time approx 48 mins.

David believes and argues that “rights precede abolition”. RPA promotes unalienable equal basic autonomy, ecology, and dignity rights of all animals, including humans; an end to rights of corporations and a number of other initiatives and strategies.

Saturday, September 22, 2012

Dr. Joy is a social psychologist, a professor of psychology and sociology, and a celebrated speaker who has spent many years researching the psychology of eating meat, systems of oppression and strategic social change. Running time approx. 53 minutes.

She has been involved in the animal advocacy community for more than 20 years, working as an activist and an educator, and has recently announced the launch of Carnism Awareness and Action Network (CAAN) which is the first organisation to focus exclusively on the psychological and social underpinnings of eating other animals.